In the first decade of the new millennium, Christopher Smith – alongside his contemporaries like Neil Marshall, Simon Rumley and Ben Wheatley – formed part of a new wave of British genre cinema, delivering some of the best, or at least most-discussed horrors of the Noughties along the way. Smith’s first feature-length was Creep (2004), […]
Now I’ve seen a lot of different genres and homages to genres in my time, but this is a first: I’ve never seen a Welsh Western before, much less imagined one which managed to add in more than a few elements of (dark) comedy. The Toll (not to be confused with last year’s Russian horror […]
Far From the Apple Tree is an engaging, if oblique study of the creative process: it takes in ideas of the ‘muse’, although it does so from a different perspective than usual, and it’s a considered, thoughtful piece of film which looks fantastic. We start out with an opening night at a gallery: one of […]
Sci-fi of all stripes has often been naturally inclined towards exploring quantum theory: this alternative means to define reality lends itself to intriguing examinations of the human condition, which potentially makes for good cinema. It’s very much the case in Infinitum: Subject Unknown, a low-key but adventurous and thought-provoking low-budget film which spins together some […]
We don’t cover a great deal of music here on Warped Perspective, but I’m delighted for that to start changing, and better still, to get to run a piece with vocalist and guitarist Jordan Guerette: I’ve liked his other band, Falls of Rauros, for some time: if you enjoy progressive black metal which blends with […]
Dementer sets out everything it’s going to do in its first few minutes – and, to its detriment, it doesn’t move forward from there. Firstly, we get the horror archetypes – the backwoods setting, the naked girl running through crop fields to a discordant soundtrack, the intimations of something occult – and then, bam, we’re […]
Lots of film fans thoroughly enjoy the make-up effects which contribute so much to the quality of our favourite horror films, and god knows we all have our own opinions about film FX, but not so many of us know much about it as an industry in its own right. With that in mind, I […]
Out of the World (2020) was the second film of the weekend to open on a man carefully cleaning a knife; however, tonally, this film couldn’t be more different to Vicious Fun. It’s immediately made clear that this is not to be a standard-issue villain, but even though director Marc Fouchard humanises his lead character […]
Knowing how to balance the horror and the comedy in a horror comedy is a fine art, and one which eludes many filmmakers; it’s not so with Vicious Fun, a film which gets it absolutely right. This is a dark, very funny battle of wills, with a sharp script and a great cast, revelling both […]
Possession horrors are almost always based around Catholic lore, and demons are dispensed with via Catholic means. But this, surely, isn’t the whole picture: other traditions and cultures must have their own spin on this kind of horror. Well, The Old Ways at least initially purports to provide a different spin on the genre; however […]
PG: Psycho Goreman is a film which pays homage all over the place. Whilst watching, I found myself thinking of all of the following: Jase and the Wheeled Warriors, Mac and Me, Power Rangers, Tokyo Gore Police and Bad Taste. It’s clear that director Steven Kostanski is both an ardent nostalgist and an SFX fiend; […]